#1

I’d love the option to stop my cursor blinking.

I also think it would be nice to have the option to change the cursor style (line, block, underscore, etc) in the options.

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#2

I think you can change cursor/caret colour in CSS, but not anything else:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_caret-color.asp

#3

same. A block cursor is much easier to navigate especially on a high resolution monitor.

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#4

You can use custom CSS to adjust the width of the cursor: https://discordapp.com/channels/686053708261228577/702656734631821413/715541084029321318

Stop blinking: https://discordapp.com/channels/686053708261228577/694233507500916796/715320851163250809

.CodeMirror-cursor, div.CodeMirror-cursor{
 visibility: visible !important
}
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How to stop the blinking cursor in VIM mode?
#5

That works in the body of the editor, but not in the title lines in the file explorer or the main title line when viewing a file’s contents.

Would it not be beneficial to simply have a global setting for this?

#6

That’s also a little hackier than I was thinking.

I don’t want the cursor to persist when obsidian doesn’t have focus, I want the cursor to only be solid when obsidian is in focus.

Its honestly a bit distracting otherwise.

#7

Yes it would probably be better to have some global setting, this is what we have currently though.

#8

Does this look like what you are after?
image

If you want to have that type of cursor, add this code to the end of your obsidian.css file:

.CodeMirror-cursor { 
  border-left-width: 0.5em;
}

You can adjust the value until you get the block width you like.
Hope this works for now!

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#9

Yes ! thanks for solving my problem. this is what I was looking for :slightly_smiling_face:

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#10

Does anyone know how to change the cursor color?

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#11

Thanks @curtismchale this was exactly what I needed

also changing width like said in discord worked perfectly, in this way:

.CodeMirror-cursor { 
   width: 9px !important; 
}